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Byline: Mark Holgate
Nannette Brown is not a woman prone to indecision, and today is no exception. It's a chilly but sunny London day in January, and she has decided to head over to the Hermes sample sale at the Dorchester Hotel on Park Lane. What she'd really, really like to find is a cardigan with a lavish fur collar-it's rare that Brown meets a fur trim she doesn't like-in a style that doesn't look too crazy. Passing through the crowd of women heading to the dressing rooms heavily laden with loot, she eyes some of the more fanciful Jean Paul Gaultier-designed pieces with a glance that suggests that they definitely fall into that latter category. She isn't ...